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OBED-EDOM SERIES- PART 2

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OBED-EDOM SERIES- PART 2

OBED-EDOM: PROGRESS THROGH UNMERITED DIVINE FAVOUR AND PROPER ATTITUDE
Psalm: 16:5-9

And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obed-edom , and all his household. 2 Sam 6:11
God’s sovereign favour was at work in the ark’s journey into the house of Obed-Edom. As a Gittite (literally someone who lives in or is from Gath, a Philistine city, south of Judah where Goliath came from) he was not in any way connected to the priesthood. By his birth, Obed-Edom was not better than Uzza, yet he kept the ark without a similar disaster. Ironically, the ark had been in the house of Abinadab, the Jewish father of Uzza, before David decided to remove it and there was no record that similar blessings came on the house of Abinadab. Obed-Edom’s name, which literally means ‘worshipper of edom’, identified him more as a Gentile than a Jew. Although the bible was very silent about the attitude put up by Obed-Edom, however, both the foreground settings and the background events, coupled with the scripturally revealed nature of God make it simple to make valid deductions. He received the ark into his house as an opportunity for privileged service rather than exposure to danger.

Obed-Edom knew what slaughter the ark had made among the Philistines and the Bethshemites.  He saw Uzzah struck dead; yet invites it to his house, and opens the doors of his house without fear, knowing it was a savour of death, only to them that treated the ark ill.  Obed-Edom accepted the responsibility of keeping the ark of the Lord for three months. He said, there is a room for you oh Lord in my house. Is there a space for the Lord in your heart? Maybe you’ve filled your heart with the love of the world, love of money, love of material things
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1 John 2: 15

He steered clear from the attitude of the man with one talent who went to hide his talent because he considered his master an unjust and austere man. Obed-Edom, by accepting the ark into his house demonstrated exemplary faith in God’s goodness, and His just nature that-

  • a. God would not punish the innocent
  • b. God favours His servants’ righteous cause
  • c. God has pleasure in the prosperity of His servant and
  • d. God will plentifully reward the proud doer.


Obed-Edom demonstrated his faith by works without sounding a trumpet or proclaiming a doctrine. He saw himself as a candidate of divine grace rather than a victim of misfortune of royal displeasure when the ark was brought to his house. He never protested, “How can the King bring this kind of deadly ark into my home? Why didn’t he take it to his own house? Did he want the ark to destroy me and my children?”  He saw divine favour in what carnal men would have seen as undue invasion of their privacy.

 Many people who have said, I don’t like people budging into my privacy. Many Christians cannot even accommodate their fellow Christians, some cannot even release their home for house fellowship not to talk of accommodating the so called “ark” How many people have been hindered from giving their best to God by the ‘me first’ syndrome (Luke 9:59,62). Lot’s hospitality made him accommodate Angels unaware. If Christ is to knock on the doors of some Christians with this request, “Is there a place for me to lay my head in your home?” I knew majority will turn him down in denying him access into their homes. Learn to be holy, learn to be hospitable.

How many ministers are grumbling at the demands of the privileged positions they grudgingly occupy while others crave for it! When invited to man’s service, carnal men perceive an honour, but when invited into God’s, they see it as untold sacrifice to accept. Others reject outright, or they want the service of God to be postponed until when things are convenient for them. They are chocolate soldiers seeking the sweet service of convenience and not the sacrificial noble and fruitful service of a divine call.


HALLELUYAH
GOD BLESS YOU
Dele Kelvin

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